Carroll County v. Estes

Citations

• 72 Miss. 171

Syllabus

<p>School Land. A dmerse possession. IAmitatíon. Code 1893, § 4148.</p> <p>Section 4148, code 1893, providing- that adverse possession of sixteenth section land for twenty-five years under claim of title shall he prima fade evidence that the law authorizing- its disposition had been complied with, is not confined to eases in which a lease has in fact been made, and it is attacked because of some infirmity arising- out of a want of evidence that the law had been complied with. When it is shown that, for the time named, adverse possession has been held nnder a paper title purporting to assign a lease, the presumption of the statute applies.</p>